Transfer of wealth benefits only war profiteers

Bill McIntyre is right when he states that President Obama’s agenda is for redistributing wealth (“As I See It,” Aug. 1).

However, he is completely wrong in where the wealth is being redistributed.

According to Columbia University economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, the Iraq invasion cost $3 trillion.

Ditto for Afghanistan.

Americans and their descendants will be left to pay $6 trillion in war debt with interest in perpetuity.

Where has this $6 trillion dollars gone?

Let me quote U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Gen. and two-time Medal of Honor recipient Smedley Butler from 1935: “War is a racket. It always has been.

“It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious.

“It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the very many. Out of war, a few people make huge fortunes.”

When Mr. McIntyre has his Social Security and/or Medicare cut or his property taxes raised because Camp Hill School District can’t afford to pay its teachers, he needs to look no further than Congress and the president.

Moreover, this great transfer of wealth from the American people has had the blessing of both parties because they’re all bought and paid for by the war profiteers and their lobbyists.